12 Coexistence with Oracle Oracle Messenger

The Oracle Messenger client works only on a Microsoft Windows machine. If you need to use a platform other than Microsoft Windows, you can use one of the following third-party messaging clients to connect to Oracle Messenger:

• Gaim 1.1.1 on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and UNIX

• iChat 3.0 Mac OS X 10.4

The following sections describe how to configure the messaging clients to connect to Oracle Messenger. If you are a user on a non-Windows platform, you can follow these instructions to use a third-party client to communicate with Oracle Messenger.

The chapter contains the following sections:

• Using Gaim with the Oracle Messenger Server

• Using iChat With the Oracle Messenger Server

Using Gaim with the Oracle Messenger Server

To set up the Gaim messaging client to use the Oracle Messenger server, follow these steps:

1. Download and install a copy of Gaim version 1.1.1 or higher from a site such as http://gaim.sourceforge.net/.

2. Create an account with the following information:

   • Protocol: Select Jabber.

   • Screenname: Type your login name, for example Firstname.Lastname.

   • Server: Type the domain name of the machine hosting Oracle Messenger, for example, acme.com. This is appended to the screen name you entered earlier. You have to click Tools, Options, and then Connection in your Oracle Messenger window to see the domain name of the Oracle Messenger server.

   • Resource: Type Gaim.

   • Password: Type your single sign-on password for Oracle Messenger.

   • Alias: Type an alias for your identity on Gaim.

   • Remember password: Select this if you want Gaim to remember this information the next time you use this account.

   • Auto login: Select this if you want Gaim to automatically log in to this account.

   • Use TLS if available: Select this if Transaction Layer Security (TLS) is available.

   • Allow plaintext auth over unencrypted streams: Select this (to allow plain text authentication) if not using Secure Socket-Layer (SSL) connections.

     If you are not certain whether you are using secure connections, ask your system administrator.

   • Port: Type 5222 for non-SSL connections or 5223 for SSL connections.

   • Connect server: Type the name of the computer hosting Oracle Messenger. If you do not know, ask your system administrator.

   • Proxy type: Select No Proxy if you do not use a proxy server. If you use a proxy server, enter the server information here.

3. After you have created the account, you can log in to it using your Oracle Single Sign-On account name and password. Your Oracle Messenger contact list will be imported into Gaim.

Contacts running Oracle Messenger will see any messages you send from this client in an Oracle Messenger chat window. If other contacts are also using Gaim and do not have RTC Messenger installed, they will receive the message in a Gaim chat window.

Using iChat With the Oracle Messenger Server

The iChat 3.0 software is scheduled to release with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). When iChat 3.0 is available, check the Oracle Messenger FAQ for information on configuring iChat to communicate with Oracle Messenger.

The Oracle Messenger FAQ can be accessed at:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/cs/user_info/ortc/messenger_index.html